When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII

When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
ISBN-10
1481401440
ISBN-13
9781481401449
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
736
Language
English
Published
2021-09-07
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Susan H. Kamei

Description

From Susan H. Kamei and Barry Denenberg, the award-winning author of Ali: An American Champion, comes an engaging new novel that narrates the oral history of Japanese incarceration during World War II, from the perspective of the young people affected. It's difficult to believe it happened here, in the Land of the Free: After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States government imprisoned more than one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans living on the Pacific Coast in desolate concentration camps until the end of World War II just because of their race. In this book, the voices of those who lived through this experience are wrapped around the story of their incarceration and illuminate the frightening reality of this dark period in American history. Many of them were children and young adults at the time. Now, more than ever, this book is needed for all who care about what it means to be an American.

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